UPDATE: Firefox 3.5 has this feature built-in, no add-ons required.

Getting sick of Firefox not using Mac OS X's system-wide proxy settings like Safari does? Well barf no more, and have a look at SystemProxy.

Just installed it and Firefox's proxy settings are following network location changes closer than a puppy following an ice cream. Or something.

om nom nom!

Original pic here.

Tags: w00t!, Firefox

Q. Why do geeks celebrate Christmas on Halloween?
A. Because Oct. 31 = Dec. 25.

Tags: comedy

Saw this at Sunshine Plaza yesterday. I don’t know what’s more cringe-worthy: an ATM running Windows, or an ATM trying and failing to run Windows.

Tags: comedy

Great gallery here. Make sure you read the descriptions, they’re quite telling of the man, I think.

Skimming through my daily bookmarks I had one of those did-I-really-see-that moments when closing a tab. Thankfully Firefox has a nifty re-open tab feature so I could go back and take a closer look at the front page of MacUpdate.

Not sure how that happened, but w00t!

Tags: w00t!

Set up a smart mailbox in Mail this morning (they’re the email equivalent of iTunes’ smart playlists) to save skipping around folders while catching up. The ruleset was as basic as it gets: show me any message that isn’t in trash or sent that I’ve received over the last week. Worked fine, and I caught up the 50 or so messages that had arrived overnight.

Mail, it seems, had more in store for me:

Now I know I’m a bit of a hussy when it comes to subscribing to email lists’n’all, but really...

Tags: lolwut?

If you use cmd-tab to switch processes and you’re getting really peeved by CoRD opening the remote host’s Start menu as a result, open a (Mac OS X) terminal, do this:

defaults write net.sf.cord SendWindowsKey 0

...and walk away going ‘nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.’

UPDATE: This only looks to work on 5.0 pre-releases or later, not the 0.4.3 version. If you want to grab the latest developer build - which I’ve found to be perfectly stable under Leopard - have at it here.

Saw this mentioned on Reddit, it’s a blog entry translating an article from a Norwegian newspaper. Worth a read, and if it’s true (and it likely is) it says a lot about the man, methinks.

Seeing as how I look after the uni’s postmaster account I occasionally run across some interesting bounces. This one came from an Italian site and didn’t look like a boilerplate MTA message, so go go gadget Babelfish:

Which gets you:

Geez, some people take their email seriously.

Get down! Get down again!

Tags: comedy

Techspansion, also known as a guy by the name of Tyler, have closed their doors today.

Tyler wrote, and actively supported some of the best apps I’ve seen on the Mac; the two I used, iSquint and VisualHub were (IMHO) best-of-breed. They are/were video transcoders providing a really simple, effective way to move almost any type of video over to many other formats including iPod video, and AppleTV. If/when they break in a future OS update, they’ll be sorely missed.

Thanks, Tyler, for an outstanding effort; best wishes for you and whatever mountain you choose to climb next.

Tags: sniff!

So, you have the words commit and its derivative committee.

Why are they opposites?

Colour me... confused.

We watched The Devil Wears Prada last week, very good movie, but an awesome (and perfectly placed) cover of Seal’s Crazy snuck into the soundtrack. I had to search the credits to see who it was, turns out it was Alanis Morissette.

Update: someone made a © claim on the video so the above link is just the audio. Go ahead and thank the content cartels...

Better quality sample at iTMS.

Oops, mouse just slipped on the buy button.

P.S. Had a disturbing thought when listening to this for the 238th time that day; Celine Dion could probably also do a respectable cover of this... because we already know she’s fracking amazing...

Tags: w00t!